Chapter Seven- Ogi Dark
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The present exists thanks to Ogi Oshino’s presence─I, and we, have been able to make it to now because that enigmatic, unidentifiable mystery wrapped in a mystery stayed here in our town.
We have the present─as well as a future.
I’m sure the day will come when I’m able to see things that way─I can’t yet, and I find it hard to believe that day will ever come when I consider what she did, what she carried out, but I’m certain that in the future, I will look back on her in that way.
That’s the kind of person I am.
And that’s who she is, too.
Ogi Oshino.
I’ll remember her and think─she symbolized my youth.
Yes─I think the very first thing I’ll recall when I reminisce about Koyomi Araragi during his high school days will not be Hitagi Senjogahara, nor Suruga Kanbaru, nor Shinobu Oshino or Mayoi Hachikuji, but Ogi Oshino’s smile.
I had no idea what she was thinking.
What was so funny.
I didn’t know her goals or her history.
The grinning girl’s smile.
No, I already knew at that moment exactly why she always smiled so much─she must have been amused by my folly.
I was a great source of amusement, a fool who couldn’t begin to see who she really was─in fact, it’s hard not to smirk.
I find myself smiling.
I find myself bursting into laughter.
So maybe it was all a laughing matter in the end.
The way I spent my youth.
The way I spent my last year in high school.
The year that began with a chance encounter with a legendary vampire─that trying, tragic, painful, ugly, hopeless year that I’d look back on some day.
And talk about to someone, convey to everyone.
Tell the tale of.
As a laughing matter to be told with a smile, a shallow narrative of self-love─perhaps.
“Perhaps? I think we already know the answer to that─not that I know,” I know Ogi would say. “It’s you who knows─Araragi-senpai.”
Yes.
I did know─I must have even known Ogi Oshino’s true identity very well, from the very start.
Laughable, isn’t it?
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